Commerce, Citizenship, and Identity in Legal History

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De ruysscher, Dave
Otros Autores: Cordes, Albrecht, Dauchy, Serge, Gialdroni, Stefania, Pihlajamäki, Heikki
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL, 2021.
Colección:Legal history library.
Temas:
Law > Europe > History.
Droit > Europe > Histoire.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Bannum in Florentine Bankruptcy Law (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
  • 1 Citizenship in the Middle Ages
  • 2 The Ban. Etymology and Historical Origin
  • 3 Fraudulent Bankruptcy in Florence
  • 4 Consequences of a Ban for Bankruptcy
  • 5 The Infamia: "Falliti (...) sunt infami et infamissimi"
  • 6 Conclusion. The Legal Ban for Bankrupts: A Loss of Identity
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 2 "Without regard to foreignness": The Reciprocal Equal Treatment of Foreign Creditors in the Early Modern German Territories
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Historiography
  • 3 Foreignness in Medieval Trade
  • 4 Early Modern Equality
  • 5 The Adoption of Reciprocal Equal Treatment Clauses in German Insolvency Laws
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 3 Modifying Procedural Practices, Shaping Economic Identities: The Middle Class and Negotiated Debt Adjustment in Commercial Courts in Belgium (1883-1914)
  • 1 Legal History and the Study of the Middle Class in Belgium
  • 2 Insolvency Proceedings in Order to Prevent Failures
  • 3 A Commercial Legislation for Belgian Merchants
  • 4 Antwerp Middle Class Members in Financial Distress 1883-1914
  • 5 The Commercial Court's Lenient Attitude towards the Middle Class
  • 6 Negotiated Debt Adjustment
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 4 Citizenship in Early Modern Amsterdam: An Artisanal Identity?
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Amsterdam Citizenship
  • 3 Guilds
  • 4 Legal Institutions
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 5 The Pareres of the Governors of the Frankfurt Exchange: Legal Opinions of Frankfurt Merchants in the Eighteenth Century
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Pareres
  • 3 The Governors of the Frankfurt Exchange
  • 4 Analysis of the Frankfurt Pareres
  • 5 Functions of the Pareres
  • 6 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 6 Identity, Conflict and Commercial Law: Legal Strategies of Castilian Merchants in the Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Legal System of the Low Countries
  • 3 The Castilian Community in the Low Countries
  • 4 Intra-Castilian Conflicts
  • 5 Litigation against Other (Foreign) Merchants
  • 6 The Secret Ingredient: Lobbying
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 7 The Learning Market in Early Modern Antwerp (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries): Circulation of Knowledge within the Context of Private Partnership Contracts
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Economic Development and Challenges
  • 3 Learning and Coping Strategies
  • 3 Openness and Secrecy of Company's Production Methods
  • 4 Relationship between the Merchant Community and Guilds
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments

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